Manufacturing overhead Cost of goods sold 608,000 P1,600,000 The company has created an activity -based costing system to evaluate the profitability of its products. Low-Tek's ABC implementation team concluded that P50,000 and P100,000 of the company's advertising expenses could be directly traced to B300 and T500 respectively. The remainder of the selling and administrative expenses was facility-sustaining in nature. The ABC team also distributed the company's manufacturing overhead to four activities as shown below: Activity Cost Pools (and Activity Activity Manufacturing Overhead Measures) B300 T500 Total Machining (machine-hours) P213,500 90,000 62,500 152,500 Setups (setup hours) 157,500 75 300 375 Product-sustaining (number of products) 120,000 1 2 Other (facility-sustaining cost) 117,000 ΝΑ ΝΑ ΝΑ Total manufacturing overhead cost P608,000 Required: 1. Determine the plantwide POHR used under the company's traditional costing system. 2. Compute the gross profit (loss) for B300 under the company's traditional costing system. 3. Compute the gross profit (loss) for T500 under the activity-based costing system.
Process Costing
Process costing is a sort of operation costing which is employed to determine the value of a product at each process or stage of producing process, applicable where goods produced from a series of continuous operations or procedure.
Job Costing
Job costing is adhesive costs of each and every job involved in the production processes. It is an accounting measure. It is a method which determines the cost of specific jobs, which are performed according to the consumer’s specifications. Job costing is possible only in businesses where the production is done as per the customer’s requirement. For example, some customers order to manufacture furniture as per their needs.
ABC Costing
Cost Accounting is a form of managerial accounting that helps the company in assessing the total variable cost so as to compute the cost of production. Cost accounting is generally used by the management so as to ensure better decision-making. In comparison to financial accounting, cost accounting has to follow a set standard ad can be used flexibly by the management as per their needs. The types of Cost Accounting include – Lean Accounting, Standard Costing, Marginal Costing and Activity Based Costing.
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